On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:27:56 EDT, Stephen Smalley said: > Hmm...they used to be O_RDWR, but Steve Grubb submitted a patch that > changed them a while back as part of a general cleanup of newrole. If > programs expect stdout and stderr to be rw, then I suppose newrole needs > to open them that way, although it does seem odd to read from your error > stream. It can't read from stdin, because that might be in use: grep foo bar* | more And most shells open stderr as R/W, so reading from that works. One can certainly argue that stderr *should* be write-only, and programs using stderr for reading should probably be fixed to open /dev/tty and use that instead. But not knowing whether it's just this one odd program, or lots of them, I can't really say. I suppose Fedora could just do the equivalent change in /bin/bash and see how many bug reports come in. :)
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